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Definition of Plum
| n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. | | 2. | A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. | | 3. | A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. | | 4. | Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay | | 5. | A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint. |
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